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    Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.)
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    Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files
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    7-Zip

    7-Zip

    A free file archiver for extremely high compression

    7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. 7-Zip works for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, ME, and 98. And there is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license with GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check the license for details.
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    LZ4

    LZ4

    Extremely fast compression algorithm

    LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core (>0.15 Bytes/cycle). It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core (~1 Byte/cycle). A high compression derivative, called LZ4_HC, is available, trading customizable CPU time for compression ratio. LZ4 library is provided as open-source software using a BSD license. This benchmark simulates simple "static content transfer" scenario such as OS Kernel compression or video game's static assets (text/images/tables/scripts/etc) which loading from Flash Memory / HDD / SSD. In this case, compression time is completely ignored. Because only content developers compress the data at once and usually they don't care about its computational cost. But they always care end user's experience a.k.a. "loading time" and bandwidth. Please pay attention to "LZ4HC -9" which is quite faster than other methods.
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    p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines.
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    LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)

    LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)

    A high quality MP3 encoder

    LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!
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    Nikkho

    Nikkho

    Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) Open source projects

    Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) Open source projects Author's website: https://www.javiergutierrezchamorro.com
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    Zstandard

    Zstandard

    Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

    Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression. The reference library offers a very wide range of speed / compression trade-off, and is backed by an extremely fast decoder (see benchmarks below). Zstandard library is provided as open source software using a BSD license. Its format is stable and published as IETF RFC 8478. The negative compression levels, specified with --fast=#, offer faster compression and decompression speed in exchange for some loss in compression ratio compared to level 1, as seen in the table above. Zstd can trade compression speed for stronger compression ratios. It is configurable by small increment. Decompression speed is preserved and remain roughly the same at all settings, a property shared by most LZ compression algorithms, such as zlib or lzma.
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    PeaZip

    PeaZip

    Free Zip software and Rar extractor

    PeaZip is a free archiver tool. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, Brotl, BZip, GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP, Zstandard files and more Open and extract 200+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script.
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    Brotli

    Brotli

    Brotli compression format

    Version 1.0.9 contains a fix to "integer overflow" problem. This happens when "one-shot" decoding API is used (or input chunk for streaming API is not limited), input size (chunk size) is larger than 2GiB, and input contains uncompressed blocks. After the overflow happens, memcpy is invoked with a gigantic num value, that will likely cause the crash. Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932. Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License. You can download and install brotli using the vcpkg dependency manager.
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    NanaZip

    NanaZip

    The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience

    NanaZip is an open source file archiver intended for the modern Windows experience, forked from the source code of well-known open source file archiver 7-Zip.
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    FreeArc combines best 7-zip and RAR features: auto-selected LZMA/PPMD/Multimedia compression, 1gb dictionary, exe/dict/delta data filters, updatable solid archives, SFXes, recovery record, AES+Twofish+Serpent encryption, Linux support and much more...
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    OptiPNG

    Advanced PNG optimization program

    OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.
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    FLAC is a free lossless compressed audio format which supports streaming and archival. The FLAC project maintains the format and provides a reference encoder/decoder and input plugins for several popular audio players.
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    TTA Lossless Audio Codec
    Lossless compressor for multichannel 8,16 and 24 bits audio data, with the ability of password data protection. Being 'lossless' means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.
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    KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. KGB Archiver uses AES-256 encryption to encrypt archives.
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    Areca Backup
    Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.
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    Crunch

    Crunch

    Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization

    Crunch is an image compression tool for lossy PNG image file optimization. Using a combination of selective bit depth, color palette reduction and color type, as well as zopfli DEFLATE compression algorithm encoding that employs the pngquant and zopflipng PNG optimization tools, Crunch is effectively able to optimize and compress images with minimal decrease in image quality. While it may produce file size gains larger than those produced by lossless approaches, the impact on image quality is often imperceptible, and optimized file sizes are still significantly lower than the original.
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    Snappy

    Snappy

    A fast compressor/decompressor

    Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. Snappy is intended to be fast. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in 64-bit mode, it compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at about 500 MB/sec or more. (These numbers are for the slowest inputs in our benchmark suite; others are much faster.) In our tests, Snappy usually is faster than algorithms in the same class (e.g. LZO, LZF, QuickLZ, etc.) while achieving comparable compression ratios.
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    FLAC Frontend

    FLAC Frontend

    The new, updated front-end for FLAC!

    As Speek's celebrated FLAC Frontend hasn't been updated for 10 years, things started to get a little buggy with new Windows versions. This remake fixes most issues. FLAC Frontend is a convenient way for Windows users not used to working with command lines to use the official FLAC tools. It accepts WAVE, W64, AIFF and RAW files for encoding and outputs FLAC or OGG-FLAC files. It is able to decode FLAC files, test them, fingerprint them and re-encode them. It has drag-and-drop support too.
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    dpaehl

    Converts files between many different archive formats

    * This convertor can convert the following archives: * 7-ZIP/ LZH / CAB / ZIP / ARJ / ACE / RAR / TAR / TGZ / GZ / Z / BZ2 / YZ1 / YZ2 / GCA / BEL / RPM / DEB/ BH / Noa32 / HKI / PAQAR / SQX /HA /ZOO /UHARC /LFB / ZLIB / UCL / IMP / RS / SPL / APK / Arc
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    Rar Expander is a MacOSX program which extracts the files contained in single or multi-volume RAR archives. It uses the official unRAR library internally so it is fully compatible with archives produced by WinRAR.
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    IMPORTANT NEWS: UPX has moved to GitHub https://upx.github.io ========================
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    archiver

    archiver

    Easily create & extract archives, and compress & decompress files

    Introducing Archiver 4.0 - a cross-platform, multi-format archive utility and Go library. A powerful and flexible library meets an elegant CLI in this generic replacement for several platform-specific or format-specific archive utilities. The core library APIs work pretty well but the command has not been implemented yet, nor have most automated tests. If you need the arc command, stick with v3 for now. Create and extract archive files. Walk or traverse into archive files. Extract only specific files from archives. Insert (append) into .tar files. Numerous archive and compression formats supported. Extensible (add more formats just by registering them) Cross-platform, static binary. Pure Go (no cgo). Multithreaded Gzip. Adjust compression levels. Automatically add compressed files to zip archives without re-compressing Open password-protected RAR archives.
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    Gemc

    Gemc

    Prepare your CD images (BIN,CDI,NRG,CCD or similar) for compression

    Gemc lets you prepare CD image files (such as BIN, CDI, NRG, CCD, or similar) so that they'll compress far better in programs such as WinRAR. HERE`S HOW TO USE IT: Run the CD image file (i.e. filename.bin) through GEMC to create an ECM file (i.e. filename.bin.ecm). Compress the ECM file (i.e. filename.bin.ecm) using your favorite compression program (i.e. 7Z,RAR,ZIP..). Back up, transmit via Internet, or whatever you normally do with CD images! When you want to burn the CD again, extract the original CD image from the ECM file. space saved depends on the number of sectors with unnecessary EDC/ECC data in them, which will depend on the specific type of CD
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Open Source File Compression Software Guide

Open source file compression software refers to programs and tools that are developed, released, and maintained as free and open source under private or public copyright licenses. This type of software allows users to compress and decompress one or more files in order to reduce their size and make them easier to store or transport. Open source file compression programs enable users to archive multiple files into a single package for storage or email attachments.

Open source file compression works by reducing the unnecessary elements from data and eliminating any redundancies from a file’s format so that it can be stored in less space than the original file requires. It employs special algorithms that detect patterns within groups of bytes (files) allowing it to identify similar elements throughout data sets, thereby removing those patterns while maintaining the integrity of the original information. In this way, large groupings of files can be compressed into smaller packages without sacrificing any of their content. Some popular open source compression formats include Gzip, Bzip2, 7z, RAR, TAR, ARJ and ZIP.

The purpose of open source file compression is primarily convenience; however it also provides an element of security by making it difficult for third parties to gain access to confidential information contained within compressed files since they must first decode them before being able to view what is inside. Additionally compressing large amounts of data helps save on storage space requirements since files no longer take up as much physical room as when uncompressed resulting in potential cost savings for both individuals and organizations alike who need such capacity but may not have unlimited resources at their disposal with which to do so otherwise. Compression also reduces download times by cutting down on bandwidth needs which is beneficial for those utilizing dial-up connections or those downloading large amounts of information over wireless networks where speed may suffer due immense traffic loads over limited spectrum ranges like 2g/3G/4G coverage areas; thus increasing efficiency when doing online tasks such as transferring or backing up massive volumes data between computers connected through local area networks (LANs).

Features Provided by Open Source File Compression Software

  • Compression: Open source file compression software allows users to reduce the size of their files so that they can be more easily shared, stored, and transferred. This is done by reducing the amount of redundant or unnecessary data within a file. The level of compression depends on the type of algorithm used to compress the data.
  • Encryption: Many open source file compression software provides an added layer of protection by providing encryption services. By setting passwords on compressed archives, only authorized persons can view the contents inside them. Encryption also prevents data from malicious third-party access and can prevent tampering with your files and documents.
  • Archiving: Some open source file compression programs come with additional features for compressing multiple folders into one archive folder for easier storage and sharing purposes. It takes up less valuable disk space when all related files are compiled into one folder versus individual ones, making it easier for users to manage their large number of documents and other media files.
  • File Formats: Open source file compression tools support multiple types of archiving formats such as.rar,.zip,. 7z, etc., allowing users to store a variety of different types of files in one container without having to worry about compatibility issues or incompatible versions.
  • Split Files: Large archive files may sometimes need to be divided into several smaller parts in order to upload or download them quickly over slow connection speeds - this feature is provided by open source file compression tools which allow users to split their compressed archives into manageable pieces or “chunks” so they can be sent over separately rather than one huge chunk at once which would take too much time

Different Types of Open Source File Compression Software

  • ZIP: A popular file compression software, ZIP is a lossless data compression method which gives fast and reliable results. It is often used to reduce the size of large files for storage and transfer over the internet.
  • RAR: A proprietary file format, RAR provides users with the possibility of compressing large files into smaller sizes. It can also encrypt and password protect archives, making it secure to transmit data over the Internet or store sensitive information.
  • 7-Zip: An open source file archiver, 7-Zip is a utility that allows you to compress multiple files or folders into one single archive with strong compression ratios and also supports encryption capabilities as well as password protection.
  • Gzip: This is an open-source software popularly used in Unix operating systems. It's based on Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Gzip works best on text files, often reducing their size by two thirds compared to other formats like ZIP.
  • Tar: This is an archiving program designed to store large amounts of data efficiently. It is commonly used in combination with a compression method such as gzip or bzip2 in order to reduce its size even further before being stored or transferred over the internet.

Advantages of Using Open Source File Compression Software

  1. Cost Saving: Using open source file compression software eliminates the need to purchase expensive proprietary programs. This can save companies and individuals a great deal of money in both upfront costs and subscription fees over time.
  2. Security: Open source file compression software often offers robust security features, allowing users to protect their data from unauthorized access or third-party exploitation.
  3. Scalability: Open source software offers scalability and flexibility, meaning it can be easily modified or extended as needed. This is beneficial for businesses that may experience rapid growth or may otherwise require a significant amount of customization due to their industry or niche requirements.
  4. Quality Control: Open source development typically results in higher quality code as developers are free to modify and improve upon the existing codebase without any external influence (such as corporate interests). Additionally, there is usually ample opportunity for bug testing due to the sheer number of individuals that frequently contribute to open source projects.
  5. Cross-Platform Compatibility: Many open source file compression programs allow for cross-platform compatibility, meaning they can be used on different operating systems with relative ease. This can prove incredibly helpful when attempting to share files between multiple machines running different OSs such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux distributions.

Who Uses Open Source File Compression Software?

  • Home Users: People who use open source file compression software at home for tasks such as archiving important files, backing up data, and reducing the size of large files that take up a lot of disk space.
  • Business Users: Companies that rely on open source file compression software to securely store their company’s data or share documents between departments.
  • Software Developers: Programmers and developers who need to compress and decompress files as part of their programming workflows.
  • System Administrators: IT professionals responsible for maintaining server systems and networks who use open source file compression software to store large amounts of data with minimal storage requirements.
  • Security Professionals: Cybersecurity experts responsible for ensuring sensitive data remains secure by using encrypted archives in order to protect the information from unauthorized access.
  • Scientists & Researchers:Individuals or teams researching topics ranging from biology to computer science may utilize open source file compression software to store, transmit, or analyze large datasets quickly and accurately.

How Much Does Open Source File Compression Software Cost?

Open source file compression software is available for free. This means that you do not have to pay anything in order to use it, and you can download it from the internet without any cost or fee. Most open source programs also come with a great deal of helpful documentation and support, allowing users to easily learn how to use the program. Additionally, because these programs are community driven, they are often updated frequently with bug fixes and new features, ensuring users always have access to the most up-to-date version of the software. There are no additional costs associated with using open source file compression software making it an attractive option for those who need a reliable and affordable tool for their data storage needs.

What Does Open Source File Compression Software Integrate With?

Open source file compression software can integrate with various kinds of software. This includes desktop applications like archive managers and file extractors, operating systems, virtual machines, cloud storage and backup services, programming languages (like Java), utilities (like WinZip), antivirus programs, and office suites. Integrating with other software allows users to interact more easily with their data, as well as provide access to additional features they may need in order to complete their tasks. For example, an open source file compression program might be used in conjunction with an antivirus program in order to ensure secure extraction and transmission of files; or it could be integrated into a popular office suite to allow for streamlined archiving of documents.

What Are the Trends Relating to Open Source File Compression Software?

  1. Open source file compression software is becoming increasingly popular as users become more aware of the benefits associated with it.
  2. Open source file compression software can usually be downloaded for free, which is a big draw for many consumers.
  3. These programs often have a wide variety of features that are not available in traditional commercial compression software.
  4. Open source file compression tools often offer higher levels of security and faster speeds than their commercial counterparts.
  5. Many open source file compression tools are also cross-platform compatible, meaning they can be used on multiple operating systems.
  6. These tools are also regularly updated to ensure that they remain secure and up-to-date with the latest technologies.
  7. The user-friendly interface of open source file compression software makes it easy for even novice users to navigate and understand.
  8. Additionally, these tools are more customizable than commercial compression software, allowing users to tailor the program to fit their specific needs and preferences.

Getting Started With Open Source File Compression Software

  1. Getting started with open source file compression software is relatively straightforward. First, users should identify a compression program that best fits their individual needs. Depending on the operating system being used, there are a number of options available and each one will have its own distinct feature set. After selecting an appropriate application, users should download the software from the relevant online repository (e.g., SourceForge). Once downloaded to their computer, they can simply follow the installation instructions provided by the software’s developer before launching it and beginning to compress files.
  2. Before compressing any files, however, users should familiarize themselves with the interface and basic functionality of their chosen program in order to avoid confusion at a later stage. They should first check whether or not their chosen open source file compression software supports all necessary file formats for storage or transmission over networks as well as find out how secure the software is when it comes to safe data extraction from compressed archives after decompression has occurred (most applications provide passwords wherein specific files are encrypted for additional safety). Also important is evaluating what level of compression each open source solution offers; some offer higher levels compared to proprietary solutions but usually require more processing power in order for them to handle larger archives efficiently. Additionally, if using Windows-based systems then users may want to consider downloading an update patch if needed since older versions of certain programs can be incompatible with newer operating systems/file formats/etc.
  3. Once these issues have been addressed and taken care of, users can begin compressing their files which is done fairly quickly depending on how large each archived item actually is. They may also wish to review settings such as optimization preferences that dictate whether output quality or archiving speed is given precedence during operation; different programs will handle this differently so again it pays off here to read some documentation regarding your chosen application first before running multiple tasks through it too quickly afterwards.